Oct 28th was my last day at HPE, which, as I
wrote back in Oct, started a hunt for a new place to
hang my professional hat.

Before I go any further, I’d like to thank everyone who reached out to me or
helped me in my search for a new position. Whether you had a lead, contacted me
to offer support, or just signal boosted the fact I was looking, I am grateful.
The amount of support I got was humbling, overwhelming, and, quite frankly,
unexpected. So thanks to all of you.

I talked to a lot of great companies. After making a really difficult choice,
I’m happy to say that I’ve found a role that checks all of my wish list items:
a great team that produces an impressive product and that values my open source
work and is willing to allow me to continue working on it.

Many folks are aware that my previous job allowed me to work full time on
Python’s packaging, splitting my time between projects like PyPI and pip. Well,
I am happy to say that AWS is going to allow me to continue to work on those
projects. I’ll spend two dedicated work days every week improving Python’s
packaging toolchain. I’ll spend the other three days working on projects like
Boto3, Botocore, and Boto and
the AWS CLI.